Staff Engineer Team Lead, Simulation Infrastructure - Release
Core
Lead the Release team to design, build, and deploy infrastructure ensuring safe and reliable software releases across the autonomous vehicle fleet, managing software builds, triage, and large-scale simulation-based validation.
Role type
Staff Engineer Team Lead (Release Engineering & Validation)
Builds
Autonomous vehicle software release pipelines, validation infrastructure, and simulation environments
Domain
Autonomous driving / Robotics / Software Engineering
Required skills
Release engineering, CI/CD pipeline management, C++, Python, autonomous vehicle systems (Localization, Perception, Prediction, Planning, Control), technical leadership, team mentoring, branching strategy design, automated test generation
Preferred skills
Cloud simulation scaling, Apache Airflow, AWS, Applied Intuition simulation tooling
Technologies
C++, Python, Gitflow, Trunk-Based development, AWS, Apache Airflow, Applied Intuition
Responsibilities
Define and enforce code promotion policies and branching strategies; drive shift-left quality initiatives with automated testing; standardize release documentation and governance workflows; oversee release pipeline stages to minimize breakages; collaborate with Autonomy teams for fast-forward patch integration; audit and resolve discrepancies between mainline and release branches
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with team leadership
